As is often the nature when you have back-to-back Formula 1 race weekends, there have been few fresh storylines arising so far in Austria that weren’t already doing the rounds in France. Besides Mercedes’ W09 updates and an intensifying of links between Charles Leclerc and a Ferrari race seat in 2019, there hasn’t been a huge amount going on that has been particularly outstanding or surprising. Qualifying offered us a number of interesting points, though, with Valtteri Bottas’ charge to his first pole position of the season stealing the show. As Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel made errors on their opening Q3 efforts, the Finn was able to pull half a second clear. While the gap...
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